Basle
Britishnoun
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a canton of NW Switzerland, divided into the demicantons of Basle-Landschaft and Basle-Stadt . Pops.: 263 200 and 186 900 (2002 est). Areas: 427 sq km (165 sq miles) and 36 sq km (14 sq miles) respectively
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a city in NW Switzerland, capital of Basle canton, on the Rhine: oldest university in Switzerland. Pop: 165 000 (2002 est)
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Roger Federer will face Rafael Nadal in the final of the Swiss Indoors in Basle after seeing off the American Jack Sock on Saturday.
From The Guardian • Oct. 31, 2015
Well done Basle, you did everyone who hates Liverpool proud last night.
From BBC • Dec. 10, 2014
Facsimile of an Engraving on Wood, from the Cosmographie Universelle of Munster, folio, Basle, 1552.
From Scientific American • Sep. 7, 2013
Insurers usually do not pay, so patients, like Ms. Basle, pay out of their own pocket — she paid $1,500 for an injection.
From New York Times • Sep. 5, 2011
The engraved plates produced in Venice were then carried over the Alps to Basle, as Vesalius did not trust the Venetian printers to produce work of sufficiently high quality.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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